UMaine Gets $12M Gift

The University of Maine announced it has received the largest donation in its history, $12 million from 1937 graduate George L. Houston.

Houston, who died earlier this year at the age of 91, made the bequest to the University of Maine Foundation. The Bangor native played football for UMaine and later developed an engineering and surveying consulting business.

His gift will be used to establish a scholarship fund named for Houston that will benefit undergraduate and graduate students in the university's School of Forest Resources.

Full-text article available via Business Week, 9.25.07.